Lame Science? Blind Religion?
In Consecrating Science, Lisa Sideris argues that an anthropocentric and science-based cosmology encourages human arrogance and diminishes a sense of wonder in human experience immersed in the natural world, as found in diverse cultural and religious traditions. I agree with her that science elevate...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities$s2024-
[2019]
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Zygon
Year: 2019, Volume: 54, Issue: 2, Pages: 351-353 |
| Review of: | Consecrating science (Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2017) (Rolston, Holmes)
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Scientism
/ Critique of religion
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Book review
B cosmogenesis B wonderland Earth B Lisa Sideris B Wonder |
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| Summary: | In Consecrating Science, Lisa Sideris argues that an anthropocentric and science-based cosmology encourages human arrogance and diminishes a sense of wonder in human experience immersed in the natural world, as found in diverse cultural and religious traditions. I agree with her that science elevated to a commanding worldview, scientism, is a common and contemporary mistake, to be deplored, a lame science. But I further argue that science has introduced us to the marvels of deep nature and vastly increased our human appreciation of nature as a wonderland at levels great and small. Sideris is right to fear consecrating science. She-and the humanists, sages, and saviors-need also to fear blindness to what science has to teach us about cosmogenesis and wonderland Earth. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-9744 |
| Reference: | Kritik in "Wonder Sustained (2019)"
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/zygo.12508 |